YMMV / The Amazing Bulk

• Awesome Art: The film's boxart (the one used on Wikipedia, not our main page) looks very cool, portraying the Bulk as a badass force of nature destroying everything in his path.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • General Darwin's speech about hating dust and how it needs to be contained before an army of dust bunnies plots to take over. If it's meant to be his motivation, then it certainly doesn't play into any of his actions in the film.
  • Right before the Bulk kills Dr. Kantlove, there is a sudden scene of a troll chasing the dog in a cave. We don't know either.
  • The ENTIRE final chase is full of bizarre things, like Bulk running onto a soccer field and Zeus getting in on trying to kill Bulk. And two differently colored geckos on laptops, the second of which is repeatedly typing the phrase "I am a Gecko".
• Ensemble Dark Horse: General Darwin is easily the most memorable character other than the Bulk himself, thanks to being the only actor who looks like he's having any fun with the movie.
• Fetish Retardant: Lolita Kantlove feeling up the Bulk's crotch in what looks like foreplay, which wouldn't be so bad if the Bulk wasn't a poorly-rendered CGI purple man.
• Fight Scene Failure: All the punches between Hank and the robber on the train clearly don't make contact.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "I hate dust!"^ExplanationGeneral Darwin's first scene has him standing alone in his mansion ranting about dust building up in his home. The bizarreness of the scene led to people sticking it into other movies, or just showing the clip without content only for people to find it doesn't make any more sense in context.
  • "Well, it ain't Barney the purple dinosaur!"^ExplanationRay's reaction to seeing the Bulk for the first time, which tends to be quoted for its memorableness or used in response to other giant purple characters.
  • "We are almost at the end of the movie, and we haven't even used all of our stock-footage yet."
• Narm: The infamous chase sequence at the climax. What one can only assume was intended to be an exciting conclusion to the story basically consists of the filmmakers using what appears to be every stock animation they had at hand, regardless of whether it had anything to do with the film's plot. The whole jaw-droppingly and hilariously bizarre thing just has to be seen to be believed.
• Nightmare Fuel: General Darwin is generally over the top and insane, but there is one moment where he comes off as rather unsettling. He comes with a syringe with a fairly intimidating Slasher Smile, and the most sinister sounding tone in the movie:
  "What's up... Doc?
  [Evil laughing]
• Quirky Work: You have a fat, ugly, purple monster man running around in the most awkward-looking stroll, in an entirely green screen setting, which includes random things like leprechauns, goblins, pirates, inept detectives, muggers, a diabolical Bond villain, and possibly the most insane military general ever put on screen out to get him. It culminates in a ridiculous climax that is commonly (and sarcastically) referred to as "the best chase scene in cinema history," where the general orders the military and random things to chase and kill the Bulk, while he runs around in the most bizarre CGI settings ever, concluding with an air force pilot dropping a kamikaze communist man riding an atomic bomb on top of the purple marathoner. All set to the "William Tell Overture" and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home."
• Serial Numbers Filed Off: In reference to The Incredible Hulk, though in this one, the Bulk is a villain.
• Signature Scene: The final chase scene reached memetic status for how utterly nonsensical it is.
• So Bad, It's Good: The only real appeal of the film, with tons of Special Effect Failure and a nonsensical plot.
• Special Effect Failure: Birdemic looks real compared to this.
  • It's very clear that the stock backgrounds used in the film are meant for CGI models, as they clash horribly with the live-action actors.
  • The stock animations used in the climactic chase scene look better than the rest of the film.
  • The CGI tables in the stock background for the lab scenes further highlight how out of place the real table is, as it doesn't have the same perspective.
  • It's obvious whenever the actors are just walking or running in place to make up for the fact that everything in the film is done with a green screen; during Henry and General Darwin's first conversation, they're simply leaning back and forth to simulate walking.
  • The Bulk himself is a blatant CGI effect with clunky animations and movement, including moments of walking where he stands on the sides of his feet (rather than standing flat) and his facial animations clearly being incomplete with the software just trying to interpret movements that didn't have proper in-between frames. There's also a noticeable dissonance between the CGI and practical effects; one of the prop hands features detailed wrinkles and nails not found on the CGI model, and when the Bulk is attacking the helicopter, he's clearly just the actor who played Ray in a purple filter. And that's before getting into the use of the repainted "Hulk Hands" toy in a handful of shots.
  • The satellite scenes being the same footage reversed and replayed becomes more obvious in the shots where the Earth is visible, as its rotation reverses when the satellite animations do.
  • Several times in the city, a worm's-eye view background is used when the characters are standing as if on level ground, such as the Bulk's first appearance.
• Stock Footage Failure: Some of the footage of Dr. Kantlove's rockets consists of live-action stock footage that looks nothing like the animated rockets.

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